<td colspan="​3"><​b>​NROER - a plugin into the school system; opportunities for open data enthusiasts</​b> ​<​br><​a href="​http://​odc.datameet.org/​odcblr2015?&#​prof_rajaram_s_sharma">​Prof. Rajaram S. Sharma</​a>​ heads the Central Institute of Educational Technology of the NCERT.</td>

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<td> 11:15am - 12.00PM </td>

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<td colspan="​3"><​b>​NROER - a plugin into the school system; opportunities for open data enthusiasts</b> <​br><​a href="​http://​odc.datameet.org/​odcblr2015?&#​prof_rajaram_s_sharma">​Prof. ​Rajaram S. Sharma</​a> ​heads the Central Institute of Educational ​Technology of the NCERT.</td>

In a career in education, spanning over twenty five years, he has been a teacher, teacher educator, ​ trainer and researcher, exploring active methods of learning, helping childen become independent learners, enhancing teachers competency and capacity for innovation, and helping school systems explore appropriate ICT to reach out and bridge divides. He champions the Creative Commons and Free and Open Source Software applications. He can be contacted at rajaramsharma@gmail.com

In a career in education, spanning over twenty five years, he has been a teacher, teacher educator, ​ trainer and researcher, exploring active methods of learning, helping childen become independent learners, enhancing teachers competency and capacity for innovation, and helping school systems explore appropriate ICT to reach out and bridge divides. He champions the Creative Commons and Free and Open Source Software applications. He can be contacted at rajaramsharma@gmail.com

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===== Prof. Arun C. Mehta =====

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Ph.D. (Demographic Projections) from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; specialist in EMIS, Quantitative Techniques and Projections and Forecasting of Educational Data; authored books on Education for All in India, Enrolment Projections,​ Population Projections and Upper Primary Education and contributed a number of research articles in journals and in NUEPA occasional paper series; consulted by World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO and ACCU (Japan); member, editorial board of Pariprekshya (A Hindi Journal), trained at UNESCO regional Office at Bangkok and Harvard Institute of International Development,​ USA; Developed a website on Education for All in India (http://​educationforallinindia.com)

===== Sajjad Anwar =====

===== Sajjad Anwar =====

[[http://​geohacker.in/​|Sajjad]] is a Bangalore based hacktivist and programmer, building tools to scale the data team and analyze large spatial data-sets at Mapbox. He has been working closely with OpenStreetMap data and technology for over 6 years. ​

[[http://​geohacker.in/​|Sajjad]] is a Bangalore based hacktivist and programmer, building tools to scale the data team and analyze large spatial data-sets at Mapbox. He has been working closely with OpenStreetMap data and technology for over 6 years. ​

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===== Srinivas Kodali =====

===== Srinivas Kodali =====

Srinivas Kodali is a civil engineer working on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Digital Cities. He is currently working on digitizing public transport data of major Indian cities.

Srinivas Kodali is a civil engineer working on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Digital Cities. He is currently working on digitizing public transport data of major Indian cities.

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===== Naveen Mahesh =====

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Director and Managing Trustee of HLC International school, an IGCSE school in Chennai.

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Prior to joining HLC as its Director in 2005, Naveen worked at many MNC's including Wipro, NBC and Citibank, where he specialized in providing solutions for the top investment banks around the world. Over the past decade Naveen has researched the pedagogy of numerous schools and conducted research initiatives on best teaching practices as well as diagnostic assessment of students in K-12 schools using Kognify, a cognitive assessment tool he co-developed. Kognify is currently being piloted in a few schools to test the quality of its predictive analysis, which Naveen believes will bring a great amount of individualization to the teaching and learning process in class rooms everywhere.

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===== Sanjana Janardhanan =====

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Sanjana leads the Changemaker Schools program at Ashoka India. With a background in youth engagement and development,​ Sanjana aspires to see a world where young people see themselves as active agents of change.